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CLASSROOM CHALLENGES
A Formative Assessment Lesson
Interpreting
Distance-Time
Graphs
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Interpreting Distance–Time Graphs
MATHEMATICAL GOALS
This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to interpret distance–time
graphs and, in particular, to help you identify students who:
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Interpret distance–time graphs as if they are pictures of situations rather than abstract
representations of them.
Have difficulty relating speeds to slopes of these graphs.
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
This lesson relates to the following Standards for Mathematical Content in the Common Core State
Standards for Mathematics:
8.F:
Define, evaluate, and compare functions.
Use functions to model relationships between quantities
This lesson also relates to all the Standards for Mathematical Practice, with a particular emphasis on:
2.
7.
8.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
INTRODUCTION
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Before the lesson, students work on a task designed to reveal their current understandings and
difficulties. You review their work and create questions for students to answer in order to
improve their solutions.
A whole-class introduction provides students with guidance on how to work through the first
task. Students then work in small groups, matching verbal interpretations with graphs. As they do
this, they translate between words and graphical features, and begin to link the representations.
This is followed by a whole-class discussion about applying realistic data to a graph.
Students next work in small groups, matching tables of data to the existing matched pairs of
cards. They then explain their reasoning to another group of students.
In a final whole-class discussion, students draw their own graphs from verbal interpretations.
Finally, students return to their original task and try to improve their individual responses.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
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Each student will need two copies of the assessment task Journey to the Bus Stop, a miniwhiteboard, a pen, and an eraser.
Each small group of students will need copies of the cut-up Card Set A: Distance–Time Graphs,
Card Set B: Interpretations, Card Set C: Tables of Data, a large sheet of paper, and a glue stick.
A supply of graph paper to give to students who request it. There are some projector resources.
TIME NEEDED
15 minutes before the lesson, a 100-minute lesson (or split into two shorter lessons), and 10 minutes
in a following lesson (or homework). Timings are approximate and will depend on the needs of the
class.
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BEFORE THE LESSON
Assessment task: Journey to the Bus Stop (15 minutes)
Set this task, in class or for homework, a few days
Journey to the Bus Stop
before the formative assessment lesson. This will
Every morning Tom walks along a straight road from his home to a bus stop, a distance of 160 meters.
The graph shows his journey on one particular day.
give you an opportunity to assess the work, and to
find out the kinds of difficulties students have with
it. You will then be able to target your help more
effectively in the next lesson.
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Give each student a copy of Journey to the Bus
Stop.
Briefly introduce the task and help the class to
understand the problem and its context.
Read through the task and try to answer it as
carefully as you can.
1. Describe what may have happened.
You should include details like how fast he walked.
It is important that, as far as possible, students are
allowed to answer the questions without your
assistance.
Students should not worry too much if they cannot
understand or do everything because in the next
lesson they will engage in a similar task that should
help them. Explain to students that by the end of the
next lesson, they should expect to answer questions
such as these confidently. This is their goal.
2. Are all sections of the graph realistic? Fully explain your answer.
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Assessing students’ responses
Collect students’ responses to the task. Make some notes on what their work reveals about their
current levels of understanding and their different problem solving approaches.
We suggest that you do not score students’ work. The research shows that this will be
counterproductive, as it will encourage students to compare their scores and will distract their
attention from what they can do to improve their mathematics.
Instead, help students to make further progress by summarizing their difficulties as a list of questions.
Some suggestions for these are given in the Common issues table on the next page. We suggest that
you make a list of your own questions, based on your students’ work, using the ideas on the following
page. We recommend you either:
• write one or two questions on each student’s work,
or
give students a printed version of your list of questions highlighting the questions appropriate to
each student.
If you do not have time to do this, you could select a few questions that will be of help to the majority of
students and write these questions on the board when you return the work.
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Common issues:
Suggested questions and prompts:
Student interprets the graph as a picture
For example: The student assumes that as the
graph goes up and down, Tom’s path is going up
and down.
Or: The student assumes that a straight line on a
graph means that the motion is along a straight
path.
Or: The student thinks the negative slope means
Tom has taken a detour.
Student interprets graph as speed–time
The student has interpreted a positive slope as
speeding up and a negative slope as slowing
down.
Student fails to mention distance or time
For example: The student has not mentioned
how far away from home Tom has travelled at
the end of each section.
Or: The student has not mentioned the time for
each section of the journey.
Student fails to calculate and represent speed
For example: The student has not worked out the
speed of some/all sections of the journey.
Or: The student has written the speed for a
section as the distance covered in the time taken,
such as “20 meters in 10 seconds.”
• If a person walked in a circle around their
home, what would the graph look like?
• If a person walked at a steady speed up and
down a hill, directly away from home, what
would the graph look like?
• In each section of his journey, is Tom’s
speed steady or is it changing? How do you
know?
• How can you figure out Tom’s speed in
each section of the journey?
• If a person walked for a mile at a steady
speed, away from home, then turned round
and walked back home at the same steady
speed, what would the graph look like?
• How does the distance change during the
second section of Tom’s journey? What
does this mean?
• How does the distance change during the
last section of Tom’s journey? What does
this mean?
• How can you tell if Tom is traveling away
from or towards home?
• Can you provide more information about
how far Tom has traveled during different
sections of his journey?
• Can you provide more information about
how much time Tom takes during different
sections of his journey?
• Can you provide information about Tom’s
speed for all sections of his journey?
• Can you write his speed as meters per
second?
• What is the scale on the vertical axis?
Student misinterprets the scale
For example: When working out the distance the
student has incorrectly interpreted the vertical
scale as going up in 10s rather than 20s.
Student adds little explanation as to why the
graph is or is not realistic
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• What is the total distance Tom covers? Is
this realistic for the time taken? Why?/Why
not?
• Is Tom’s fastest speed realistic? Is Tom’s
slowest speed realistic? Why?/Why not?
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SUGGESTED LESSON OUTLINE
If you have a short lesson or you find the lesson is progressing at a slower pace than anticipated, we
suggest you break the lesson after the first sharing of posters and continue it at a later time.
Whole-class introduction: interpreting and sketching graphs (15 minutes)
Throughout this activity, encourage students to articulate their reasoning, justify their choices
mathematically, and question the choices put forward by others. This introduction will provide
students with a model of how they should work with their partners in the first small-group activity.
Show the class the projector resource Matching a Graph to a Story:
Matching a Graph to a Story
A. Tom took his dog for a walk
to the park. He set off
slowly and then increased
his pace. At the park Tom
turned around and walked
slowly back home.
B. Tom rode his bike east from
his home up a steep hill.
After a while the slope
eased off. At the top he
raced down the other side.
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end of his road he bumped
into a friend and his pace
slowed. When Tom left his
friend he walked quickly
back home.
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Ask students to match the correct story to the graph. They are to write down at least two reasons to
support their decision.
After two or three minutes ask students who selected option A to raise their hands. Ask one or two to
justify their choice. You may wish to use some of the questions on the sheet Suggested questions and
prompts to encourage students to justify their choices and others to challenge their reasoning.
Repeat this with options B and C. Even if explanations are incorrect or only partially correct, write
them next to the appropriate section of the graph. Encourage students to challenge these
interpretations.
Slide P-2 of the projector resource allows you to write three different student explanations on the
board at the same time.
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A graph may end up looking like this:
Line not too steep - this
means Tom slows down.
Furthest Tom gets from
home.
Negative slope means Tom
is walking back to his home.
Distance
from
home
Tom returns home.
Tom starts from
home
Time
This is how students should annotate their graphs when working on the collaborative task.
Collaborative activity: matching Card sets A and B (20 minutes)
Ask students to work in small groups of two or three students.
Give each group the Card Set A: Distance–Time Graphs, and Card Set B: Interpretations together
with a large sheet of paper, and a glue stick for making a poster.
You are now going to continue exploring matching
graphs with a story, but as a group.
You will be given ten graph cards and ten story cards.
In your group take a graph and find a story that matches
it. Alternatively, you may want to take a story and find a
graph that matches it.
Take turns at matching pairs of cards. Each time you do
this, explain your thinking clearly and carefully. If you
think there is no suitable card that matches, write one of
your own.
Place your cards side by side on your large sheet of
paper, not on top of one another, so that everyone can
see them.
Write your reasons for the match on the cards or the poster just as we did with the example in class.
Give explanations for each line segment.
Make sure you leave plenty of space around the cards as, eventually, you will be adding another
card to each matched pair.
The purpose of this structured group work is to encourage students to engage with each other's
explanations and take responsibility for each other’s understanding.
Slide P-3 of the projector resource summarizes these instructions.
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You have two tasks during the small-group work: to make a note of student approaches to the task,
and to support student reasoning.
Make a note of student approaches to the task
Listen and watch students carefully. Note different student approaches to the task and any common
mistakes. For example, students may interpret the graph as a picture or students may read the graph
from right to left. Also notice the ways students check to see if their match is correct and how they
explain and justify a match to each other. You can use this information to focus a whole-class
discussion.
Support student reasoning
Try not to make suggestions that move students towards a particular match. Instead, ask questions to
help students to reason together. If you find one student has produced a solution for a particular
match, challenge another student in the group to provide an explanation.
John matched these cards. Sharon, why do you think John matched these two cards?
If you find students have difficulty articulating their decisions, then use the sheet Suggested questions
and prompts to support your own questioning of students.
In trials of this lesson some students had difficulty stating where home is on the graph.
For this graph, where does the journey start? Is that home?
Give me a graph that shows a journey starting away from home.
For this graph, does the journey end at home? How do you know?
If the whole class is struggling on the same issue, you could write a couple of questions on the board
and hold an interim, whole-class discussion. You could ask students who performed well in the
assessment to help struggling students.
Some of the cards are deliberate distracters. For example, a student who matches Card 2 and E
indicates that they think that graphs are pictures of the situation.
E
Distance from
home
2 Opposite Tom's home is a
hill. Tom climbed slowly up
the hill, walked across the
top, and then ran quickly
down the other side.
Time
Allow students time to match all the cards they can.
Sharing posters (10 minutes)
As students finish matching the cards, ask one student from each group to visit another group’s
poster.
You may want to use Slide P-4 of the projector resource to display the following instructions.
If you are staying at your desk, be ready to explain the reasons for your group’s matches.
If you are visiting another group, write your card placements on a piece of paper. Go to another
group’s desk and check to see which matches are different from your own.
If there are differences, ask for an explanation. If you still don’t agree, explain your own thinking.
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When you return to your own desk, you need to consider as a group whether to make any changes
to your own poster.
Students may now want to make changes to their poster. At this stage there is no need for students to
glue the cards onto their posters as they may decide to make further changes.
If you need to extend the lesson over two days:
Once students have finished sharing posters, organize a whole-class discussion. Invite pairs of
students to describe one pair of cards that they think they have matched correctly and the reasoning
they employed. Encourage other students to challenge their explanations.
Finally, ask students to note their matches on the back of their poster and to use a paperclip to attach
all cards to the poster.
At the start of the second lesson, spend a few minutes reminding the class about the activity:
Can you remember what we were working on in the last lesson?
Return the posters to each group. The whole-class discussion on interpreting tables can serve as an
introduction to the lesson.
Whole-class discussion: Interpreting tables (15 minutes)
Bring the class together and give each student a mini-whiteboard, a pen, and an eraser. Display Slide
P-5 of the projector resource:
Making Up Data for a Graph
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On your whiteboard, create a table that shows possible times and distances for Tom’s journey.
After a few minutes, ask students to show you their whiteboards. Ask some students to explain how
they created their tables. Write their figures on the board. Ask the rest of the class to check these
figures.
Is Tom’s speed slower or faster in this section compared to that section?
How do you know from the graph? From the table?
Is this speed constant? How can you tell? Do the figures in the table show a constant speed for
this section of the journey?
What units might these be measured in?
Are these figures realistic?
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Collaborative activity: matching Card Set C (20 minutes)
Hand out Card Set C: Tables of Data and ask students to match these cards with the cards already on
their poster.
You are now going to match tables with the cards already on your desk. In your group take a
graph and try to find a table that matches it, or take a table and find a graph that matches it.
Again take turns at matching cards you think belong together. Each time you do this, explain your
thinking clearly and carefully.
Write your reasons for the match on the poster.
Students may also wish to suggest suitable units for the distances and times on the cards.
The tables should help students confirm or modify existing matches.
As they work on the matching, support the students as in the previous matching activity.
Q
A
Distance from
home
Some teachers have found that
it helps students to look at the
average speeds between
consecutive times, by
calculating differences. For
example, average speeds for
Table of Data Q would look like
this.
Time
0
1
2
3
3
Distance
0
18
36
54
84
5
120
Time
0
1
2
3
4
Distance
0
10
20
40
60
5
120
H
Distance from
home
R
Time
Average speed
10
10 B
20
20
60
Distance from
home
In the past, some students have
had difficulty understanding the
repetition in Table R. The table
is intended to show the
impossibility of Graph H.
Time
D
Distance from
home
Distance from
home
This may help students to understand
C that the table on Card Q
matches Tom’s hill walk, and that the correct distance–time graph
should therefore be Card D.
Time
Time
E
Time
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home
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If some students finish quickly, encourage them to devise their own pairs of cards.
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Sharing posters (10 minutes)
When students have completed the task, the student who has not already visited another pair should
share their work with another pair of students. Students are to share their reasoning as they did earlier
in the lesson unit.
Students may now want to make final changes to their poster. When they are completely satisfied, ask
them to glue their cards onto the large sheet of paper.
Whole-class discussion (10 minutes)
Using mini-whiteboards, make up some journeys and ask the class to show you the corresponding
graphs.
On your whiteboards, draw a distance–time graph to show each of the following stories:
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Sam ran out of his front door, then slipped and fell. He got up and walked the rest of the
way to school.
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Sara walked from home up the steep hill opposite her house. She stopped at the top to put
her skates on, then skated quickly down the hill, back home again.
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Chris cycled rapidly down the hill that starts at his house. He then slowed down as he
climbed up the other side.
Ask students to show their whiteboards to the whole-class. Select some to explain their graph to the
class. Encourage others in the class to challenge their reasoning.
Follow-up lesson: Reviewing the assessment task (15 minutes)
Return the original assessment Journey to the Bus Stop to the students together with a copy of
Journey Home.
If you have not added questions to individual pieces of work, or highlighted questions on a printed list
of questions, then write your list of questions on the board. Students should select only the questions
from this list they think are appropriate to their own work.
Look at your original responses and the questions (on the board/written on your script.)
Use what you have learned to answer these questions.
Now look at the new task sheet, Journey Home.
Use what you have learned to answer these questions.
If you are short of time, then you could set this task as homework.
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SOLUTIONS
Assessment task: Journey to the Bus Stop
1.
The straight lines indicate that Tom moves at a constant but different speed in each section.
Tom walks a total of 280 yards (100+ 60 + 120). He is walking for 100 seconds. The graph
shows Tom’s journey is split into four sections.
A In this section of the journey
Tom walks away from home at a
speed of 2 meters per second
(100 ÷ 50) for 50 seconds.
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B The negative slope here means a
change in direction. At 100
meters from home Tom starts to
walk towards home. He walks
for 60 meters at a speed of 3
meters per second (60 ÷ 20).
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A
B
C At the start of this section Tom
changes direction. He is now
walking away from home at a
fast pace. His speed is 4 meters per second (120 ÷ 30). He moves at this speed for 30 seconds
and covers 120 meters.
D Here the slope is zero. This means at 160 meters from home Tom stops. It has taken him 100
seconds to get to this point.
2.
The speeds provided in the answer to question 1 are realistic. A speed of 2 meters per second is
a brisk walk. A speed of 4 meters per second means Tom is running.
Post Assessment task: Journey Home
1.
The straight lines indicate that Sylvia moves at a constant but different speed in each section.
The overall journey takes 90 minutes and Sylvia bikes a total of 10 miles (2 + 1 + 7). The graph
shows Sylvia’s journey is split into four sections.
A In this section of the journey
Sylvia bikes towards home at a
speed of 4 miles per hour (2 ÷
0.5) for 30 minutes.
B Here the slope is zero. Six
miles from home Sylvia has
stopped for 20 minutes.
C The positive slope here means
a change in direction. After 50
minutes Sylvia bikes away
from home for 1 mile. She
bikes at a speed of 6 miles per
hour (1 ÷ 10/60).
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C
A
6
Distance from
home in miles
B
5
4
D
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2
1
0
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
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Minutes
D In this section Sylvia spends 30 minutes biking 7 miles home. Her speed is 14 miles per hour
(7 ÷ 1/2).
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2.
Although unrealistic for anyone to bike at a constant speed the average speeds for each section
are realistic, although for the first 60 minutes Sylvia is not biking very fast. Maybe the wind was
against her!
Collaborative activity
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Interpretation
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Journey to the Bus Stop
Every morning Tom walks along a straight road from his home to a bus stop, a distance of 160 meters.
The graph shows his journey on one particular day.
1. Describe what may have happened.
You should include details like how fast he walked.
2. Are all sections of the graph realistic? Fully explain your answer.
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Card Set A: Distance–Time Graphs
A
Distance from
home
Distance from
home
B
Time
D
Distance from
home
Distance from
home
C
Time
Time
Distance from
home
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Distance from
home
E
Time
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Card Set A: Distance–Time Graphs (continued)
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Distance from
home
Distance from
home
H
Time
Time
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Distance from
home
Distance from
home
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Time
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Card Set B: Interpretations
1 Tom ran from his home to the bus
stop and waited. He realized that
he had missed the bus so he
walked home.
2 Opposite Tom’s home is a hill.
Tom climbed slowly up the hill,
walked across the top, and then
ran quickly down the other side.
3 Tom skateboarded from his
house, gradually building up
speed. He slowed down to avoid
some rough ground, but then
speeded up again.
4 Tom walked slowly along the road,
stopped to look at his watch,
realized he was late, and then
started running.
5 Tom left his home for a run, but he
was unfit and gradually came to a
stop!
6 Tom walked to the store at the end
of his street, bought a newspaper,
and then ran all the way back.
7 Tom went out for a walk with some
friends. He suddenly realized he
had left his wallet behind. He ran
home to get it and then had to run
to catch up with the others.
8 This graph is just plain wrong.
How can Tom be in two places at
once?
9 After the party, Tom walked slowly
all the way home.
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Card Set C: Tables of Data
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Time
0
1
2
3
4
5
Distance
0
40
40
40
20
0
Q
Time
0
1
2
3
4
5
Distance
0
10
20
40
60
120
R
Time
0
1
2
3
3
5
Distance
0
18
36
54
84
120
S
Time
0
1
2
3
4
5
Distance
0
40
80
60
40
80
T
Time
0
1
2
3
4
5
Distance
0
20
40
40
40
0
U
Time
0
1
2
3
4
5
Distance
0
30
60
0
60
120
V
Time
0
1
2
3
4
5
Distance
0
20
40
40
80
120
W
Time
0
1
2
3
4
5
Distance
0
45
80
105
120
125
X
Y
Make this one up!
Time
Distance
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Time
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1
2
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4
5
Distance
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Make this one up!
Time
Distance
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2
3
4
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Journey Home
Sylvia bikes home along a straight road from her friend’s house, a distance of 8 miles.
The graph shows her journey.
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7
6
Distance from 5
home in miles
4
3
2
1
0
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100 110
Minutes
1. Describe what may have happened.
You should include details like how fast she bikes.
2. Are all sections of the graph realistic? Fully explain your answer.
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Matching a Graph to a Story
A. Tom took his dog for a walk
to the park. He set off
slowly and then increased
his pace. At the park Tom
turned around and walked
slowly back home.
B. Tom rode his bike east from
his home up a steep hill.
After a while the slope
eased off. At the top he
raced down the other side.
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C. Tom went for a jog. At the
end of his road he bumped
into a friend and his pace
slowed. When Tom left his
friend he walked quickly
back home.
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A. Tom took his dog for a walk
to the park. He set off
slowly and then increased
his pace. At the park Tom
turned around and walked
slowly back home.
Explaining the match
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B. Tom rode his bike east from
his home up a steep hill.
After a while the slope
eased off. At the top he
raced down the other side.
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C. Tom went for a jog. At the
end of his road he bumped
into a friend and his pace
slowed. When Tom left his
friend he walked quickly
back home.
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Matching Cards
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Take turns at matching pairs of cards. You may want to take a graph and
find a story that matches it. Alternatively, you may prefer to take a story and
find a graph that matches it.
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Each time you do this, explain your thinking clearly and carefully. If you
think there is no suitable card that matches, write one of your own.
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Place your cards side by side on your large sheet of paper, not on top of
one another, so that everyone can see them.
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Write your reasons for the match on the cards or the poster just as we did
with the example in class. Give explanations for each line segment.
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Make sure you leave plenty of space around the cards as, eventually, you
will be adding another card to each matched pair.
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Sharing Work
•  One student from each group is to visit another group’s poster.
•  If you are staying at your desk, be ready to explain the reasons for
your group's matches.
•  If you are visiting another group:
•  Write your card placements on a piece of paper.
•  Go to another group’s desk and check to see which matches are
different from your own.
•  If there are differences, ask for an explanation. If you still don’t
agree, explain your own thinking.
•  When you return to your own desk, you need to consider as a
group whether to make any changes to your own poster.
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Mathematics Assessment Project
Classroom Challenges
These materials were designed and developed by the
Shell Center Team at the Center for Research in Mathematical Education
University of Nottingham, England:
Malcolm Swan,
Nichola Clarke, Clare Dawson, Sheila Evans, Colin Foster, and Marie Joubert
with
Hugh Burkhardt, Rita Crust, Andy Noyes, and Daniel Pead
We are grateful to the many teachers and students, in the UK and the US,
who took part in the classroom trials that played a critical role in developing these materials
The classroom observation teams in the US were led by
David Foster, Mary Bouck, and Diane Schaefer
This project was conceived and directed for
The Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS) by
Alan Schoenfeld at the University of California, Berkeley, and
Hugh Burkhardt, Daniel Pead, and Malcolm Swan at the University of Nottingham
Thanks also to Mat Crosier, Anne Floyde, Michael Galan, Judith Mills, Nick Orchard, and Alvaro
Villanueva who contributed to the design and production of these materials
This development would not have been possible without the support of
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
We are particularly grateful to
Carina Wong, Melissa Chabran, and Jamie McKee
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